Performer: Wretch 32

Superb appearances from Stormzy and Wretch 32 were highlights of a well-constructed evening of grime from BBC Radio 1 Xtra, displaying the genre in all its troubled glory. 

It is fair to say that urban and classical music would not normally share an audience, let alone a stage, but, in the first-ever Urban Classic Prom, rising and established stars of the urban music scene met and collaborated with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under dynamic young conductor (and arranger of some of the evening’s numbers) Jules Buckley, in a showcase of two very different musical culture